Chapter 184

Jon's POV:

The mansion is everything I love about being here. It’s big enough to provide plenty of space, but small enough to make me feel almost normal.

It’s easy to get lost in the cavernous palace where the ceilings are so high we get an eighteen foot tall Christmas tree each year with no trouble.

Here we lived like a family of five, with five bedrooms, a kitchen, only one dining room, and a living area. Okay, so maybe we lived like a very wealthy family, but the difference between wealth and royalty is immense.

In this house, we have no vast hallways, no rooms that go unused for years, filled with antique furniture.

Yes, we usually bring our cook and, when we were children, our nanny, but even that is a much smaller staff than I live with.

“It looks the same,” Camilla breathes.

Her copper hair glimmers in the warm lighting of the lamps. When she turns to face me, a feeling of home, of rightness hits me.

“It is the same. Mum do